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CLG wins the Halo Guardians World Championship and $1MM defeating Allegiance
Na’Vi beats out Astralis to win the Counter Strike Counter Pit tournament and $40k
Liquid Hungrybox wins the Super Smash Brothers Melee Battle of the Five Gods at South by SouthWest and $13k.
Bravado Gaming beats Aperture Gaming and wins the South African Counter Strike Telkom DGL Masters Series and $2,600
Vainglory is now available on Amazon devices using Amazon’s AppStore
FIA Formula E Championship launches their Forza Motorsport 6 virtual championship Race-Off Pro Series alongside various ePrix with Microsoft’s Turn 10 Studios and a $17k prizepool
FOX Sports will broadcast the FIFA Interactive World Cup 2016 a tournament for EA Sport’s FIFA 16 game
The International Esports Federation announces their 8th Esports World Championship for October in Jakarta, Indonesia
King’s co-owner Andy Miller announces the Sacramento King’s Golden 1 Center arena is “the most technologically advanced arena “in the world” & we should be playing Esports tournaments there”
Fnatic recruits 343 for their Dota 2 division
Logan parts ways with HyperGames Call of Duty Division
Artery & Universe join Team Secret as Misery and w33 make their way out
Valve bans Smash, Mstco, and Ztok, for match fixing
Dota team Digital Chaos disbands
ESL’s Intel Extreme Masters season hit their personal high of 34MM unique viewers
Heroes of the Storm patch brings bans for ranked play drafts at the start and middle
Dendi is denied access to the DotaPit’s post tournament party but luckily reddit gets word and sends their sad sitting friend Keanu Reeves with a sandwich incase he gets hungry
Shaquille O’Neal, Alex Rodriguez, and Jimmy Rollins invest in NRG Esports with League of Legends and Counter Strike Divisions
Sports Hero, a cash Esports tournament platform raises $1MM led by Australian group Esports Mogul
Crown Casino of Melbourne announces their Call of Duty Crown Invitational tournament with a $53k prize for the first place winner
Oceanic cinema chain HOYTS partners with Riot Games to broadcast live tournaments in their Australian & New Zealand theaters
Blizzard investigates FengFengFeng and Team PanicToDeath for helping players boost their rankings for a fee advertised on Alibaba’s online marketplace Taobao
Chinese based Ourgame, Wangyu Internet Cafe, 360, KongZhong, Ourpalm, and Beijing iRena partner up to form Allied Esports with plans to build 10 Esports arenas & hubs over 5 years
New York State attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman shuts down DraftKings and FanDuel betting in New York city, there is still another case from Schneiderman accusing the companies of false advertising and consumer fraud
Esports betting platform Blinkpool led by CEO Suraj Gosai & CTO Jordan Douglas launches with funding from Entrepreneur First offering real time odds for betting between users instead of “the house” within 15 - 45 second windows
Tencent leads with a $61MM investment in a $100MM funding round for Douyu TV with backers including Sequoia Capital and Nanshan Capital valuing the company at over $1BB. The platform touts 100MM registered users & 15MM daily active users with their top players playing Tencent’s League of Legends. Their main competition Panda TV is led by Wang Sicong son of China’s richest man.
Principal Bang Seung Ho of Ahyeon Polytechnic High School in South Korea running the Game Production Department for the last seven years is inaugurated as an official League of Legends Esports team called “if you ‘Wanna B’ my champion you gotta get with my team”
Ember’s investors backout and release all players except Contractz after failing to gain an LCS spot losing to team Dragon Knights
King of Blades players leave due to an abusive atmosphere. Owner Ryan Diliello is accused of not comping for travel expenses and making players sign contracts that paid them $900 a year plus a small percentage of winnings
Two days before the tournament, Riot postpones their NA summer promotion tournament for 2 weeks due to making Challenger Series teams adhere to work eligibility rules in the LCS including work visas which they did not require. This will also apply to the European Challenger Series.
League of Legends shoutcasters MonteCristo, DoA, and PapaSmithy reject Riot’s offer to work the mid-season invitational Shanghai publishing a statement that their offered compensation is 40-70% of the market rate and will only work for market rate or better. Have a great weekend :)

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